Appropriating Babushkas from the Orthodox - poem

 

Lawrence Hall

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Appropriating Babushkas from the Orthodox

 

(upon the first Sunday home from the hospital)

 

A babushka badly in need of a hearing aid

Asked me if I would sub for the missing lector

I apologetically said I really didn’t feel up to it

And would she please ask somebody else.

 

I tracked her progress back to the narthex by sound:

 

“HE SAYS HE DON’T WANNA HE’S SICK!”  “HE SAYS HE DON’T WANNA HE’S SICK!” “HE SAYS HE DON’T WANNA HE’S SICK!” “HE SAYS HE DON’T WANNA HE’S SICK!” “HE SAYS HE DON’T WANNA HE’S SICK!”  “HE SAYS HE DON’T WANNA HE’S SICK!” “HE SAYS HE DON’T WANNA HE’S SICK!” “HE SAYS HE DON’T WANNA HE’S SICK!”

 

But it’s all good; God gives us babushkas

To show us that the Faith, like the babushkas

 

Will never go away